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"Liaisons Musicales"
French music for two viols, including duos by Boismortier, St Colombe, and Francois Couperin.
Liaison
Musical Ornament (Fr.): tie, slur
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Liaison, n. [F., fr. L.ligatio, fr. ligare to bind] A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons): classic eighteenth-century scandalous epistolary novel, 1782, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Film versions include: 1959 french language movie directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Phillpe, Annette Vadim and "Dangerous Liaisons", 1988, based on the stage play by Christopher Hampton, directed by Stephen Frears.
